The State Duma or Chamber of Deputies of Russia today approved the law ratifying the strategic partnership and cooperation agreement with Venezuela, signed in Moscow on May 7.
The Venezuelan Parliament ratified the document on September 30 and the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, promulgated it on October 7.
“This synchronization of the ratification processes is very important, in our opinion, in the current situation, in which Venezuela is subject to unprecedented energy pressure, including direct military pressure, from the United States,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking today in the Duma.
The agreement expands the interaction between both countries in the political and economic spheres, including energy, mining, transportation and communications, as well as in security and the fight against terrorism and extremism.
In addition, it will create new “coordination mechanisms throughout the bilateral agenda, as well as in current international and regional affairs of mutual interest”.
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Caracas believes that relations between both countries are increasingly solid and fruitful and, although no details of their content were given, they advanced that “it has to do with the new moment of the geopolitics of the world”, as explained by the Chavista deputy Roy Daza.
Specifically, they referred to “the irreversible character of the process of establishing a just, sustainable, multipolar world order, based on law, on sovereignty and on the equality of States”, he added.
Russia continues to diplomatically support Venezuela in the international sphere, showing solidarity after recent pressure from the United States, which has set its sights on drug trafficking on the Caribbean coast.
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Last July, the Russian corporation Rostec reported on the construction of an ammunition factory for Kalashnikov assault rifles in the Latin American nation.
Russia has recently signed strategic cooperation agreements with allied countries such as North Korea and Iran.
